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i think a lot of people are surprised that boehner held on. >> who wants the job? >> eric cantor. >> right. good point. you should be the analyst. [ laughter ] >> and the point is, he's a weakened speaker and lost 85 of his -- 85 members of a majority, 151 voted against him. so he doesn't have much within his own party, and he's a speaker. one historic fact, brian, that the audience does not know, you don't have to be a member of the house to be speaker of the house. that has never happened and that can happen. >> let's talk about the demographic makeup of the house and there is a history in the making with this 113th congress. >> fascinating little packedon factoids. right now, there are -- little factoids. right now, there are 200 democrats and the majority are nine white males, the first time that white males in the democratic party have not been a majority. so, that tells you a little bit about the democratting onrafy of the u.s. house amongst democrats. first end use member. six -- first hindu member, six openly gay members, two female combat members, so that
i think a lot of people are surprised that boehner held on. >> who wants the job? >> eric cantor. >> right. good point. you should be the analyst. [ laughter ] >> and the point is, he's a weakened speaker and lost 85 of his -- 85 members of a majority, 151 voted against him. so he doesn't have much within his own party, and he's a speaker. one historic fact, brian, that the audience does not know, you don't have to be a member of the house to be speaker of the house....
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you got john boehner here trying to corral the cass on the house floor, he seems to be the moderate, and if there's any take away from the election mitt thromney lost, it's because theh republicans are so far rightfar that they need to come more to the middle, but the republican party is dissing john boehnerhn who is kind of in the middle? >> he got in trouble because of that sandy relief, and chrischri christie called him out, andan boehner backed down on sandy,o but overall, the republican party is not unified, and we sa that with the fiscal cliff deall senate republicans struck a deal with joe biden, it passed the senate, and house republicans said no way.wa we're not going for that. they thought about amending it and spend yesterday graspingte with what rdthey should do.sh. they voted on the senate bill, which by the way was passed in the middle of the night. the text of the bill had not been released, and there was no score of this measure that cost $4 trillion.llio >> so is this sort of an indicatirton of where the republican party is at? after this election, and now with these
you got john boehner here trying to corral the cass on the house floor, he seems to be the moderate, and if there's any take away from the election mitt thromney lost, it's because theh republicans are so far rightfar that they need to come more to the middle, but the republican party is dissing john boehnerhn who is kind of in the middle? >> he got in trouble because of that sandy relief, and chrischri christie called him out, andan boehner backed down on sandy,o but overall, the...
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plan b, john boehner, the leader of the rublicans offered to do it at a million. in a way, the republicans were defeated in terms of getting it up to a million. they never got a vote. everybody is going to get a tax increase that has nothing to do with this bill because of the payroll tax holiday. a person earning $50,000 is going to pay $800 more by virtue of the fact that expires. what you have really here now it seems to me is erik canter, the number 2 guy trying to make the number one guy in his own party john boehner look bad or maybe this is his attempt to run for speaker when the new congress comes into affect thursday at noon where they have an election. i mean, baner said let's hand it over to the senate and the assumption was we all do what the senate comes up with. obviously, there's been a breakdown in communication. >> there's this thought going back to the election, the republicans are blindsided by how badly mitt romney was beaten and see this going on in the republican party itself. is this more than example of what's going on in the republican par
plan b, john boehner, the leader of the rublicans offered to do it at a million. in a way, the republicans were defeated in terms of getting it up to a million. they never got a vote. everybody is going to get a tax increase that has nothing to do with this bill because of the payroll tax holiday. a person earning $50,000 is going to pay $800 more by virtue of the fact that expires. what you have really here now it seems to me is erik canter, the number 2 guy trying to make the number one guy...
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. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner was at the white house summit. so far, he's not made a statement about the measures discussed. we're hearing the president does did not float a new deal but reiterated his calls to extend tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 he also wants to extend unemployment benefits for 2 million people and delay $110 billion in sequester cuts and that is a story we'll follow all weekend long. back to you in the studio. >> and thank you very much. >>> essentially, we remain in a stalemate tonight and congress returned yesterday to the senate, the house will be back on monday and they have three days to work it out. >>> and turning our attention to the other big story to the day. snow coming to the d.c. area and should start to see the white stuff coming overnight. gary mcgrady is joining us now. how much can we expect? >> reporter: not a lot. pardon me, tom. but we will have a little bit coming on across and looks like an accumulation here in the city. first of all, i want to assure you that this is not a big storm and
. >> reporter: house speaker john boehner was at the white house summit. so far, he's not made a statement about the measures discussed. we're hearing the president does did not float a new deal but reiterated his calls to extend tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 he also wants to extend unemployment benefits for 2 million people and delay $110 billion in sequester cuts and that is a story we'll follow all weekend long. back to you in the studio. >> and thank you very...